Advocating for Immigrant Dreamers

Click this linkfor a short guide for meetings with Senate and House offices.

Facts and resources about how Dreamers benefit our economy and culture:

An estimated 3.3 million young undocumented immigrants would potentially be eligible to apply for conditional permanent resident status under the Dream Act of 2017, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

The urgency of a legislative solution for young undocumented immigrants was recently raised dramatically when the Trump administration announced in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo that it would end DACA on September 5. After March 5, 2018, DACA recipients will be susceptible to deportation and no longer be able to renew their work permits. Here is a summaryof the DHS memo rescinding DACA on September 5.